E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 04 February 2015

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04 February 2015

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week, to mark Safer Internet Day and Stop Bullying Day, we have exciting online resources on LearnEnglish Teens for you to try out.

We also continue with our introduction of E-merging Forum-5 keynote speakers, focusing this week on Steve Kirk and Vera Ivanovna Zabotkina, experts in the area of ESP and EAP.

And, this month EnglishAgenda is taking a closer look at teaching pronunciation with various events lined up including a seminar, a podcast and blogs.

We also have news of The Fair List award, the ELTons 2015 and our February blog topics.

We hope you find these useful.

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

The Fair List, UK

Set up in 2013, The Fair List, is an annual award. It celebrates excellence in gender balance of plenary speakers, presenters or speaker panels at UK ELT events. The group supporting the award believes that good gender balance at UK ELT events will ensure wide coverage of relevant topics and a more balanced perspective on the issues affecting both women and men in their professional lives. It will also help to reflect the composition of the profession.

Accentuate: bringing pronunciation to the fore

In February the British Council's EnglishAgenda website is taking a closer look at teaching pronunciation in the lead up to the NATECLA London/IATEFL PronSIG event on Saturday 21 February. Our associate bloggers on TeachingEnglish will be writing about questions related to pronunciation and will be giving some practical ideas on how to tackle pronunciation more effectively in class. Be inspired by a seminar recording with Robin Walker, a podcast on English as a Lingua Franca, Monday 16 February and live-streamed conference, Saturday 21 February.

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E-merging Forum-5 keynote speakers

We are pleased to continue our introduction of the E-merging Forum - 5 keynote speakers! One of the plenary speakers in 'ESP and EAP' area will be

Steve Kirk, director of EAP Pre-Sessional programmes and a senior teaching fellow at Durham University English Language Centre (UK). The second speaker in the 'ESP and EAP' content area will be

Vera Ivanovna Zabotkina, PhD, professor, Vice-Rector for Innovative International projects, Director of the Centre for

Cognitive Programs and Technologies, and Professor of English at the Department of Translation Studies, Interpreting and Translation at the Russian State University for the

Humanities.

Registration for the E-merging Forum - 5 is now open. Don't miss the deadline to register for the biggest ELT event in Russia and remember, discount rates are available until 24 February!

Staying safe online

February 10th is Safer Internet Day in the UK. How do your teenagers stay safe online? Check out this article with worksheets. Read more

And to mark Stop Bullying Day on 11th February, why not try our LearnEnglish Teens video and worksheet resources on Cyberbullying

ELTons 2015 update

The longlisted products for the ELTons 2015 have been confirmed. Up until this stage ELTons judges have only been assessing application forms, now the judges will be sent product samples and get to experience the products first hand before making their suggestions for which entries will make up the 2015 shortlists. The shortlist for the awards will be revealed in March on the British Council's EnglishAgenda website and the awards ceremony will take place in London on Thursday 4 June.
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February blog topics

Read the latest blog posts by our TeachingEnglish associates. Each post deals with different aspects of English language teaching. Why not comment and share your ideas? The new blog topics for February are - Vocabulary, Using literature, Pronunciation with higher levels, and Tech/no tech. Happy blogging!
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